The House GOP’s election of Rep. Mike Johnson (La.) as Speaker is likely to give an opening to social conservatives, who plan to press him on bringing anti-abortion and anti-transgender polic…

  • @breadsmasher
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    7310 months ago

    “I am a Bible-believing Christian,” Johnson said in a Thursday interview with Sean Hannity on Fox News. “Go pick up a Bible off your shelf and read it, that’s my worldview. That’s what I believe in.”

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    • ares35
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      2010 months ago

      if he actually read the text, he’d have a different ‘worldview’.

      • @[email protected]
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        1810 months ago

        No he wouldn’t. He doesn’t have the capacity to understand it beyond what his pastor’s interpretation is, as evidenced by the statement “the Bible is my worldview.” I read it when I was a fundie like him, and it didn’t change my worldview, because I knew all the Correct™ ways to “reconcile” the problems.

        I thankfully got out by other means, but not everyone escapes the “correct interpretation” indoctrination.